Hi, in the German Forum [1] we had a discussion about cycle lanes (with a lot of off-topic talk). In Germany there are two different kind of bicycle lanes:
1. "Radfahrstreifen": cycle lanes which are mandatory indicated by a sign and a solid lane (cycleway=lane) 2. "Schutzstreifen" cycle lanes with dashed lines not so wide as a "Radfahrstreifen" and therefore only advisory and no sign (cycleway=?) So one solution that was pointed out in the thread is to tag the "Schutzstreifen" with cycleway=shared_lane because of the description in the wiki. I then pointed out, that in the UK there is a similar situation, but no solution to it (see [2] Limitations). But I don't know what is meant with cycleway=shared_lane. So can someone specify what is meant by this tag? My solution would be to tag a "Radfahrstreifen" with cycleway=lane AND cycleway:bicycle=designated and a "Schutzstreifen" with cycleway=lane AND cycleway:bicycle=designated. But this will break backward-compatibility. In the wiki there is also a tag for sharrows. But the description starts with "As shared_lane, ...". Does that mean that sharrows are tagged with cycleway=shared_lane, or is cycleway=sharrow the tag describing the markings on the road? Best regards, Balgofil [1] = http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=19585 [2] = http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cycleway _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
